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Mary Oliver, 1986

#poetry #poem #MaryOliver

Love this poem 🥰

Two halves of a bone flute, right ends snapped. Top part with holes

This #findsfriday we have a flute made from the long bone of a crane with two holes in its side.

YouTube video by 101.9 KINK.FM Gregory Alan Isakov - The Stable Song (Bing Lounge)

Something beautiful for you this Wednesday

Just gorgeous 🩶

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Back in work today for a super short week & had to kick my morning off with this, & now a repeat..because yes, yes I was singing this to the cake in the hope it would make it less bumpy. Can’t say it worked too well but given my singing is understandable 😃

🍽️ #baking
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Cake on a cake board with a light orange and cream buttercream frosting which is not well smoothed, chopped walnuts around the edge and three fondant ghosts with long eyes and four pumpkins made out of fondant

Well finished the first (pre) Halloween cake. We shall not discuss the buttercream frosting which was so hard to do (but it was a first attempt!!) …but just gave it away & they loved the little ghosties and pumpkins!! It’s carrot cake with walnut & fondant ghosts/pumpkins 👻🎃

#baking 🍽️ #Halloween

I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.

My struggle has been too much coming off when I try and smooth it so you still see cake round the edges, get it almost there then cake appears again. So I’ve put it in to chill and will have one more go tonight before leaving it!! Thank you 🙏

a woman is laying on a table covered in cake and plates Alt: a woman is laying on a table covered in cake and plates

On leave and in my infinite wisdom decided to start, (emphasis on start), to learn full buttercream cake covering today. Fucking hell it is not a natural skill for me!

This is just the practice cake too (for a friend), working on the actual cake I’ve got planned for Friday tomorrow 😵‍💫😵‍💫

#baking

I didn’t even realise there was a BreadSky feed! Agreed, so lovely 🥰

Thank you!

their heads on spikes. When the Romans later attacked as revenge, the tribe ambushed them and defeated them due to their greater knowledge of the mountain. A local legend but this place has a pretty feral feel to it gotta say, especially at the top.

Top of Pen Pych, looking out over a valley with the towns/villages. Dark cloudy sky and long pale as well as short grass

Halfway up Pen Pych with a view across the landscape, lots of rock and moss, dark clouds in the sky

Bright yellow flowers - common ragwort

A river on the walk up Pen Pych mountain, mossy stones and trees in the autumn stage of turning orange and yellow, green ferns and rapid flowing water

Some more pics, love this route, & always think of the local legend when I come here - name of the mountain means Heads of the five bulls - the story goes that a local tribe refused to hand over their prized bulls to the Romans who demanded them, opting instead to decapitate the bulls & mount

Ahh little bimble up Pen Pych today, which is a tabletop mountain (apparently, one of only two in Europe) in the valleys, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

has a fantastic little waterfall about two thirds of the way up, love this place

For the rolls I mushed up apricot & added to melted salted butter & spread like you would cinnamon rolls. For the last two though I ran out of apricot & wanted to get them in to bake so only finely chopped & sprinkled a bit of apricot/butter - not a good idea as these are the chunks that caught!

Six baked apricot and chia seed sourdough bread rolls fresh out of the oven. Made with a salted butter and apricot paste braided on some and others rolled in chia seeds. Rolls are round with a braided / twisted pattern. Dough itself proofed with chia seeds in it also

Apricot and chia seed baked sourdough loaf with a wheat stalk scoring pattern on a wooden chopping board

Here’s the #sourdough bakes this week - apricot and chia seed loaf and apricot and chia seed twisted / braided

Ohh glad you like it! It’s nice, next time though I’ll dial back the sweet potatoes in the lasagna and add in some courgettes I think ☺️

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif: Top left: swirling white vine-like lines and round reddish-orange medallions framed by white circles on a black background. Top right : large white spiral on front of cup with a reddish-orange oval shape with stylised white petals beside it, on a black background. Middle left: diagonal zig-zag stripes in alternating black and white above and below a band around the middle of the cup Bottom left: swirling white lines and reddish-orange and white geometric band on a black background. Bottom right: diagonal white stripes below a row of red dots outlined with white circles on a black background. This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!

Which is your favourite? ❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺

#Archaeology

They are all gorgeous 😍

Three pans with respectively - Tomato sauce, white sauce and mixed diced vegetables (sweet and white potatoes, carrot, spinach, asparagus, carrot, red and white onion and red bell pepper) on the oven hob

Oooo made a veggie lasagna today as I had loads of veg to use up - it’s really nice!!

Did this with a garlic, herb and chilli flake tomato sauce and a mozzarella, cheddar & salted butter white sauce. Had it with homemade paprika sweet potato fries. Will do this one again ☺️

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Zach the brave is enjoying his #caturday 😍

A painting of the goddess, Nyx.

"Mother of Stars" 20x24 inches, oils on wooden panel⁠
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#nyx #goddessart #goddessofthenight #mythology #mythologyart

Wow this is so beautiful

Yay thank you Caerphilly ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Image of early morning sky (about 6.30am), Wales. You can see Orion and I believe Gemini, Taurus, Jupiter and Sirius. Dark sky getting lighter towards the horizon, actual sky was much darker but the phone lightened it

Happy Friday! Woke up at crazy o’ clock and realised the night sky was bright with stars still. So glad I went outside - even with my not great phone camera it still captured this 🤩

Art Nouveau embroidery design created by Ann Macbeth, head of the Embroidery Dept. at the Glasgow School of Art, 1908-1920 #womensart

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

Is it good when your product is reviewed by everyone but they all say it sucks.

People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren't the scars. You aren't ugly. You aren't evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress.

A world of yes.